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News • News • 12 Apr 2021
Overcast House informed by a client’s passionate knowledge and interest in colour and light
Overcast House by Office S&M Architects is a single-storey rear extension to a Victorian house in north London. The project name speaks to the central design concept of bringing indirect light into the interior space as well as the extension’s ‘shadow catcher’ external skin, which is made up of pigmented cast concrete blocks that model shadows on the rear façade even in the absence of direct sun.
Megan Taylor
The house owners are Keiko Cummings, a Japanese personal colour consultant and graphic designer, and her husband Alan, an academic. The task was to create an evenly lit space that could be used as a kitchen and living areas as well as an artist’s studio with table seating for 10-person consultat... More
Project • By Office S&M • Private Houses
Salmen House
New build-to-rent house, with pink textured render and green terrazzo details, containing generous vertical spaces on a constrained corner site in Newham.Bookending a mid-century terrace in Plaistow this three bed, three bath house makes effective use of a tight corner plot. Office S&M designed Salmen House to be built and let by professional landlord My Property & Home, who had purchased an end of terrace garden suitable for a two-storey infill house. The client’s brief was to produce a low cost house, which was to be her first new build development after having previously focused on refurbishing flats. She started her development career after a serious skiing accident put her in a coma for 5 weeks, and she used her compensati... More